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Luongo to the Panthers

Roberto Luongo traded to Florida Panthers from Vancouver Canucks – ESPN

 

Vancouver has traded Roberto Luongo to the Florida Panthers?  They sent him back where they got him from?  Does this mean the Panthers have to trade him to the Islanders next?

That’s unbelievable.  Really.  The Panthers are craptastic and they are adding a player at the trade deadline?  The article doesn’t say what they gave up for him.  Also, does this mean Tim Thomas is going to be traded by the deadline?  I’ve heard that he might be a fit for Minnesota, but I didn’t think they would actually take him.  This is crazy.

I really don’t care so long as the Bruins get a top four defenseman to replace Dennis Seidenberg (sp?).

It should be an interesting day for NHL fans tomorrow.

Go Bruins

Weird High School Dream

I had the weirdest high school drama dream last night.  I dreamed that we were living in an apartment.  The hallway outside of our room looked remarkably similar to the hallway the band room was in back in the old Tewksbury High School.

One of the residents, who was also a member of my graduating class, was murdered.  The killer was another member of my high school class.  A group of other class of ’89 folks was involved in a cover up.  My best friend was helping to cover up the cover up.  I was helping to cover up his covering up of the cover up.  I’m not sure how, but Steve Hackett’s song, “A Tower Struck Down” seemed to be involved somehow.

I kept having cops come and talk to me about my best friend’s involvement, even though he wasn’t directly involved at all.  Somehow they thought he was.  I also kept finding evidence that the cops were snooping my computer, and every time “A Tower Struck Down” showed up in my iTunes I would panic.  Eventually my friend and I started to crack and devised a plan to tell someone in the press where the body was hidden.  The reporter turned out to be the brother of still another high school classmate, although I don’t know if that person had a brother in real life or not.

I know we had given something, a map maybe, to the reporter, but that’s when I woke up.  

Hopefully, no one from the TMHS class of ’89 was harmed in the making of this dream.  The whole thing was really weird.  It involved people I haven’t thought about in 20 years.  Do I need therapy?  Do I need to listen to more Steve Hackett?

ScribeFire on Firefox

Scribefire on Firefox is different than on Chrome.  At least the version I installed is.  Weird.  On Chrome at home it opens a new tab.  On Firefox it divides the screen in half horizontally and puts the app in the bottom half. 

Who is the genius who came up with this campaign?

I don’t really like it this way.  All of the same information is here, but it’s just chopped in half.  I shouldn’t need a scroll bar, and I shouldn’t lose half of whatever page I was on.

It’s okay though.  The quest for cool Chrome add on s continues, and if I find super cool add ons I’ll look for Firefox versions as well.

It’s a brave new world we live in.  Embrace it.

Patio Furniture

I was in BJ’s the other night picking up boat loads of water for our cooler.  They had patio furniture for sale.  It made me think of summer.  It made me think that I’ve been wanting to get some decent patio furniture for the whole time we’ve been living here.  Mostly though, it just made me optimistic that maybe some day the Winter will end.

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Of course… it’s supposed to snow a little tonight.  That sort of destroys the optimism, ya know?

Telecommute

I will not be telecommuting tomorrow.  I will be going to new supervisor orientation, but that’s not what this is about.

In my division, Programmer/Analysts with a certain amount of tenure get to telecommute twice a week.  As of last week I am no longer a Programmer/Analyst.  As of last week I am a Supervisor.  Supervisors in my division get one day of telecommuting per week, regardless of tenure.  Well, you have to be there for three years before you get your one day of telecommuting, but that is company wide, regardless of division.  But you get the gist here.

I don’t get two days at home anymore.  I get one.  No more Mondays working at the dining room table.  I hope this move is a good one.  I hope an extra day of driving to Westwood doesn’t drive me out of my mind.  I don’t think I made a mistake.  I mean I’ve been filling the Supervisor’s roll for the most part for five months already, how much worse can it be?  Still… I hope I didn’t make a mistake.

Chrome Add Ons

The company I work for uses Google Apps.  Gmail, mostly, but also Drive, Sites, and Hangouts.  Hangouts default to opening a sub window above your gmail window.  That is a little annoying as you only get a notification in the task bar.  If you have another tab on top, you don’t know some one is sending you a message.  Someone at work suggested using a Chrome Add On that pulls Hangouts into it’s own window, which also pops up when you get a message.  Win, thinks me.

Since then I have been all about extending Chrome.  I put the Hangouts app on my home computer as well as work.  I’ve also got a download helper, and a Gmail notifier.  Cool.  I have now set to finding anything else that might be even the slightest bit cool.  Forexample, I am writing this post using an Add On called ScribeFire.  It’s pretty cool.  I am also hoping to go all crazy on greasemonkey scripts that will extend Flickr.

I’ll let you know how it all works out.

Fender Stratocaster

2014 marks the 60th anniversary of the Fender Stratocaster. Despite a lifetime of playing Gibson guitars and thinking that Fenders were clearly inferior, I have a sudden desire to own a Strat.

This is the second time I’ve felt like this. The first time ended while at a Daddy’s Junky Music store (RIP) invitation only sale when I played a Mexican Strat and actually got as far as the checkout before coming to my senses. Since then I decided if I ever bought one it would have to be an American model, despite the nasty fact that they cost about three times more than the Mexican models.

These days I don’t think I’d be quite as picky. Some of the Mexican models actually look pretty slick. The Japanese models look pretty good too. Then there are some less expensive, lower end made in USA Strats to consider as well. If I were serious (I’m not, really) I would start there.

Besides, you don’t buy a Strat without planning to modify it at some point. I want to keep both of my Gibsons as close to stock as possible, but with Fenders, it’s all mods all the time. The only criteria I’d have is a maple neck. I just like them better than the rosewood.

Then again, maybe it doesn’t have to be a Strat. Those ’72 Telecaster Deluxe reissues with the humbuckers and the Strat necks are pretty sweet looking…

Gear Acquisition Syndrome.

It’s a sickness we all get eventually.

Maybe I should stick to Gibson and get an SG… Or an ES 175… Or an ES 135… Or… Or… Or…